Mason Spirit

Every election cycle brings headlines about the lack of voter participation among 18- to 24- year-olds. The conventional wisdom is that young people are too apathetic or tuned out to vote. But, according to George Mason University research from the 2025 election cycle, that story is wrong.

Silvia Danielak, an assistant professor at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, is the author of Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability (MIT Press, April 2026), the first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Danielak’s work focuses on sociospatial and infrastructure planning in conflict settings and as part of peace efforts, as well as its coalition with climate and environmental efforts.

One Grand Challenge. Six Grand Solutions.

As Virginia faces growing shortages in the health care workforce, the Claude Moore Foundation and George Mason University have formed a groundbreaking partnership to seek solutions and build a flexible, inclusive, and data-driven workforce pipeline. The effort is one designed not just to meet current needs but to shape a stronger, more equitable future for health care in the commonwealth.

Third-year Mason LIFE student Madison Schittig contributes her unique visual point of view as a photography intern with George Mason's Office of University Branding.

George Mason English professor Kyoko Mori writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest book, Cat and Bird, has been called a “memoir in animals” and focuses on the six house cats who defined the major eras of her life as a writer.

George Mason community members from around the world came together for a week of events to recognize the Songdo campus’s 10th anniversary.

Almost 100 students a year travel from Mason Korea to spend time taking classes on George Mason’s Virginia campuses. Here are some alumni who have chosen to kick off their careers in the United States.

Since 2014, INTO George Mason University has offered classes to more than 3,000 international students from 70 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.

George Mason University is educating global citizens to succeed in an increasingly interconnected international society and economy.